run for the hills

run for the hills

1. To move to higher ground, as in preparation for or in response to a natural disaster. There are bound to be tidal waves after an earthquake like that. We'd better run for the hills!

2. To flee hastily; to clear out or depart quickly. Uh oh, Uncle Jerome's been drinking again. Run for the hills, everyone!The staff all ran for the hills when it was announced that there would be a stock-take at the end of the shift.

A welcome change from the gray water of the ending winter, but not pleasant enough to stave off the fear in children and wildlife who will turn and run for the hills with the idea that the Fermi lab had some terrible nuclear experiment go ary.

In her ``director's statement,'' second-time director (Kandel's first feature, ``Naked Jane,'' was - run for the hills - ``acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival'') says she wanted to make a film about ``friends who at times have led empty bourgeois lives, but don't or can't do it any longer.

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